Ralston, Tom;
(2024)
Generic Explanations for Generics.
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Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium.
(pp. pp. 291-297).
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Abstract
It is widely accepted that generics express law-like generalisations, on the basis of evidencethat their truth does not depend only on how things are in the actual world at one momentin time. In this paper, I propose a temporal truthmaker semantics for generics and arguethat this theory can account for the intuition that generics express law-like generalisations.The law-likeness of generics therefore does not motivate the introduction of either theunarticulated constituent ‘GEN’ or a domain of abstract kinds. Instead, it can be explainedby the nature of the states which make generics true, which may be either generic facts abouta category, or particular facts about the instances of a category.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Generic Explanations for Generics |
| Event: | Amsterdam Colloquium |
| Location: | University of Amsterdam |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217209 |
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